A long-standing puzzle is whether and how overconfidence can persist in field settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each time. Using both reduced form and structural methods we find that: (i) managers make overconfident predictions about future performance; (ii) managers have overly-positive memories of past performance; (iii) the two phenomenon are linked at an individual level in a way consistent with models of motivated beliefs.

Upon a reduction in corporate tax rates, theory tells us that the absolute increase in the value of a firm's equity is increasing in its productivity, while the excess return is related ambiguously to productivity. Using data on the U.S. stock market, I show that the excess returns due news on the latest U.S. tax reform are strongly related to traditional measures of firm profitability and market power. Compared to a firm in perfect competition, my model predicts that a monopolist would see its excess return increased by between 5 and 105 percentage points more upon news of the tax cut. I use this fact to construct a new measure of firm profitability based on its stock market reaction to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. My results show that profitability across U.S. firms is distributed with a long right tail, confirming results from a growing literature documenting an increase in mark-ups and a concentration of market power in the U.S. economy.

This talk takes a quick look at the status of diversity and inclusion in the economics profession, including results from the recent AEA survey on the professional climate, and then presents new research and initiatives.

Health care policymakers often find it challenging to change physician behavior, as it is highly persistent. Drivers of this persistence are not well understood, but physicians and patients both play a role. I study the importance of both in the prescribing behavior of primary care physicians (PCPs) in Belgium. I exploit a mandate introduced in 2006 that required PCPs to prescribe a minimum percentage of cheap or generic drugs, and analyze the change in PCP prescription habits using administrative data linking 26 million dispensed prescription drugs to 150,000 patients and 45,000 physicians. I find that PCPs exhibit a bias towards prescribing a brand name drug when an equally effective generic is available, and adjust this behavior in response to the mandate without compromising the quality of drugs they prescribe. I show that the type of patient to whom a drug is prescribed matters as well. Compared to patients prescribed medication for the first time, PCPs switch long-time users from branded to generic versions of the same drug at much lower rates, especially when these patients are older or use multiple prescription drugs. This suggests that there is a cost to switching between drugs and that it varies by patient characteristics. Using an instrumental variables framework, I estimate that switching a patient from a brand name to generic version of the same drug indeed comes at a cost, measured with decreased medication adherence. I develop a structural model of prescription behavior to quantify the relative importance of physician bias and patient considerations in PCP prescribing behavior, and find they are about equally important. Using this model, I show that the introduction of a Mandatory Generic Substitution policy may decrease overall welfare as a result of patient considerations. This suggests that policy efforts aimed at changing physician behavior should also consider potentially negative health impacts on patients.

Jodi Schenck manages Citi’s North American Corporate Foreign Exchange Sales and Solutions business. In this role, she is responsible for all aspects of Citi’s Corporate FX business in North America, including Sales, Risk Management Solutions, Electronic Solutions, and the supervision over these activities. Jodi’s teams are responsible for advising multinational corporations on foreign exchange risk management and solutioning.

For 5 years prior to this role, Jodi ran the Global Corporate FX eSolutions business which embeds Citi’s electronic solutions into client FX processes. Prior to that, Jodi was responsible for all M&A and episodic currency risk advisory for Citi’s Corporate and Private Equity clients.

Jodi represents Citi and the FXLM business on the board of the Federal Reserve’s Foreign Exchange Committee (FXC). In addition, she is heavily involved in recruiting and diversity efforts at Citi.

Economics@Work (Econ 208) is an invited alumni speaker series that allows students to discover the wide array of career paths available to economics majors and the role economics could play in their careers. In Economics@Work, undergraduates are offered a regular opportunity to network and interact with alumni from the Department of Economics. You’ll discover that economists are engaged in a wide array of professions from investment banking, finance and government, to legislation, advocacy, and online sales and marketing, among many others. This one-credit (credit/no credit) course meets eight (possibly nine) times during the semester. Sessions include a presentation and time for questions. They are followed by a reception in the Foster Library, allowing time to network with speakers.

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

In three sets of experiments involving over 3300 individuals, we show that agents motivated to be selfish or to hold egoistic beliefs make systematic errors that appear to be driven by cognitive limitations. We further show that that these errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when self-serving motives are removed. Put differently, we find that individuals make “motivated errors” — they act as if they are cognitively limited, but only when it is self-serving to do so.

Restrictions on abortion are pervasive, yet relatively little is known about the effect of being denied an abortion on women who seek one while pregnant. This paper evaluates the economic consequences of being denied an abortion on the basis of gestational age of the pregnancy. Our analysis relies on new linkages to administrative data on ten years of credit reports for participants in the Turnaway Study, the first study to collect high-quality, longitudinal data on women receiving or being denied a wanted abortion. The study recruited women seeking an abortion at 30 health providers located in 21 states who fell in to one of two groups: the first group included women with pregnancies close to the facility's gestational age limit who received a wanted abortion (Near Limit Abortion Group), while the second group was women with pregnancies just over the facility's gestational age limit who were turned away without receiving an abortion (Turnaway Group). Our analysis compares differences in credit report outcomes for these two groups for 3 years prior and up to 5 years following the intended abortion using an event study design. We find that the trajectories for these outcomes are similar for the two groups of women during the pre-period. However, following their visit to the abortion provider, we find evidence of a large and persistent increase in financial distress for the women who were denied an abortion that is sustained for the 6 years following the intended abortion.

The Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) presents an Environmental Research Seminar featuring John Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, and Director of the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Spengler has conducted research on personal monitoring, air pollution health effects, indoor air pollution, and a variety of environmental sustainability issues. Several of his investigations have focused on housing design and its effects on ventilation rates, building materials’ selection, energy consumption, and total environmental quality in homes.

Spengler chaired the committee on Harvard Sustainability Principles; and served on Harvard’s Greenhouse Gases Taskforce to develop the University’s carbon reduction goals and strategies, as well as Harvard’s Greenhouse Gases Executive Committee. He serves on the National Academies’ Health and Medicine Division “Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine”. Previously he chaired the National Academies’ NRC “Green Schools: Attributes for Health and Learning” committee and the IOM “Effect of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality and Public Health” committee; and he has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization on indoor air pollution, personal exposure and air pollution epidemiology. He now serves on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Chemistry of Indoor Environments advisory committee.

In 2003, Spengler received a Heinz Award for the Environment; in 2007, the Air & Waste Management Association Lyman Ripperton Environmental Educator Award; in 2008, the Max von Pettenkofer Award for distinguished contributions in indoor air science from the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate’s Academy of Fellows; and in 2015, the ASHRAE Environmental Health Award.

This article proposes definitions of lying, deception, and damage in strategic settings. Lying depends on the existence of accepted meanings for messages, but does not require a model of how the audience responds to messages. Deception does require a model of how the audience interprets messages, but does not directly refer to consequences. Damage requires consideration of the consequences of messages. Lies need not be deceptive. Deception does not require lying. Lying and deception are compatible with equilibrium. I give conditions under which deception must be damaging.

Dr. Sampson will discuss three examples of capacity-building to build and translate evidence, including:
1) a youth environmental health academy in Dearborn, MI;
2) a health impact assessment for the Gordie Howe International Bridge at the Detroit-Windsor border;
3) her work with APHA to convene environmental health and justice leaders—all to advance evidence-based policies that address environmental health inequities.

Natalie Sampson is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at UM-Dearborn, where she teaches courses in environmental health, health promotion, and community organizing. Grounded primarily in Southeast Michigan, she studies transportation and land use planning, green stormwater infrastructure, vacant land reuse, and climate change planning efforts, particularly their implications for health. She applies participatory research approaches with diverse partners using a broad methodological toolkit, including photovoice, concept mapping, and health impact assessment. In 2017, Sampson received the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s Rebecca Head Award, which recognizes “an outstanding emerging leader from the environmental field working at the nexus of science, policy, and environmental justice.”

Learn about 140 programs in over 50 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your major/minor requirements. CGIS has programs ranging from 3 weeks to an academic year! Meet with CGIS advisors, staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office, CGIS
Alumni, and other on-campus offices who can help you select a program that works best for you.

This course is based on the book titled Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?, by Robert Kuttner (cofounder and coeditor of The American Prospect). The author observes that in the past few decades, the wages of most workers have stagnated, and downward mobility has produced political backlash. Kuttner argues that neither trade nor immigration nor technological change is responsible for the harm to workers’ prospects. Instead, global capitalism is to blame. By limiting workers’ rights, liberating bankers, allowing corporations to evade taxation, and preventing nations from assuring economic security, raw capitalism strikes at the very foundation of a healthy democracy. The author charts a plan for bold action to make capitalism serve democracy, based on political precedent.

Participants in this course for those 50 and over will read portions of the book in advance, and bring related materials if available, for discussion during class. The classes will meet Wednesdays from 2-4pm from October 16 through November 6.

Instructor Karen Bantel has facilitated several courses for OLLI: World in Disarray, Russia, Autocracy, Western Liberalism, and TED talks. She was a professor and consultant of business strategy and entrepreneurship for many years.

The ways that we meet the nutritional needs of our communities, while also protecting the planet, promoting healthy lives, and ensuring food justice are among the greatest challenges facing our Nation and the world today. Centuries of unsustainable agricultural practices and inequitable food distribution place our food systems in peril. How to address these challenges and feed a hungry population raise transformative issues for our communities and academics committed to sustainability and food justice throughout the world.

The Community of Food, Society & Justice Conference will engage students, faculty, staff, farmers, and the community in rigorous dialogue around these challenges. The conference will be structured around a foundation of interdisciplinary scholarship that agrees that recognizing structural relations of power are necessary in order to confront race, class, and gender privileges on issues such as food justice.

Our keynote speaker is investigative reporter, Tracie McMillan, traciemcmillan.com, author of The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, and “The New Face of Hunger”.

11:45-12:30 pm Complimentary Lunch in East Quad (registration required to receive lunch). Buffet Luncheon prepared by University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program with Food Grown by the University of Michigan Campus Farm!

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

A user experience designer by trade, Samaritan Founder and U-M Alum Jonathan Kumar has founded several app-based companies with a focus on solving social issues.

Jonathan’s first company, FoodCircles, enabled anyone to directly aid an individual in need simply by dining out. Four years later, Jonathan created Samaritan, enabling Seattle city goers to invest directly and compassionately into individuals around them struggling through homelessness.

Ridhi Patel is a principal at a boutique management consulting firm who specializes in optimization, strategy development, and implementation/execution. In this role, she is responsible for driving each of her projects to delivery and providing her client with the best solution to their concerns. At Trexin, she has worked on several projects for one of the country’s largest health insurance providers within their IT Infrastructure, Information Security, Government Health Programs, Corporate Services, and Finance divisions.

Within Trexin, she is a senior member of the strategy execution practice and manages the cybersecurity practice. Prior to Trexin, Ridhi worked in strategic sourcing and implemented massive non-labor cost-reduction initiatives for healthcare providers. Her first foray into consulting was with American Express where she worked with Fortune 500 clients and implemented cost-saving strategies.
Economics@Work (Econ 208) is an invited alumni speaker series that allows students to discover the wide array of career paths available to economics majors and the role economics could play in their careers. In Economics@Work, undergraduates are offered a regular opportunity to network and interact with alumni from the Department of Economics. You’ll discover that economists are engaged in a wide array of professions from investment banking, finance and government, to legislation, advocacy, and online sales and marketing, among many others. This one-credit (credit/no credit) course meets eight (possibly nine) times during the semester. Sessions include a presentation and time for questions. They are followed by a reception in the Foster Library, allowing time to network with speakers.

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

We introduce a new model of repeated games in large populations with random matching, overlapping generations, and limited records of past play. We prove that steady-state equilibria exist under general conditions on records. We then focus on “trigger-strategy” equilibria. When the updating of a player’s record can depend on the actions of both players in a match, steady-state equilibria in trigger strategies can support the play of a wide range of actions, including any action that Pareto-dominates a static Nash equilibrium. When updates can depend only on a player’s own actions, fewer actions can be supported by steady-state equilibria. We provide sufficient conditions for trigger equilibria to support a given action, along with somewhat more permissive necessary conditions. When players have access to a form of decentralized public randomization, the sufficient conditions expand to match the necessary conditions.
joint with Daniel Clark and Drew Fudenberg

This paper analyzes a two-person, two-stage model of sequential exploration, where both information and payoff externalities exist, and tests the derived hypotheses in the laboratory. We theoretically show that even when agents are self-interested and perfectly rational, the information externality induces an encouragement effect: a positive effect of first-player exploration on the optimality of the second-player exploring as well. When agents have other-regarding preferences and imperfectly optimize, the encouragement effect is strongest. The explorative nature of the game raises the expected surplus compared to a payoff equivalent public goods game. We empirically confirm our main theoretical predictions using a novel experimental paradigm. Our findings are relevant for motivating and managing groups and teams innovating not only for private but also, and especially so, for public goods.

Large racial disparities exist in many settings, including criminal justice and healthcare delivery systems, but it is unclear whether these disparities reflect omitted variables or racial discrimination. We develop a quasi-experimental approach to measure and characterize discrimination in the context of pretrial bail decisions. Race-specific average treatment effects (of pretrial release on subsequent misconduct) are used to purge omitted variables bias from conventional benchmarking regressions, isolating legally-unwarranted release rate disparities among black and white defendants with the same potential for pretrial misconduct. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of bail judges in New York City, we find that approximately 70 percent of the average release rate disparity between observationally-equivalent white and black defendants is due to discrimination. Nearly all judges discriminate against black defendants, with higher levels of discrimination among judges who are older, more stringent, and less exposed to black cases. To explore the form that this discrimination takes, we develop and estimate a hierarchical marginal treatment effects model in which judges can differ in their rankings of defendant misconduct risk (in violation of the conventional monotonicity assumption). We find evidence of both racial bias and statistical discrimination, with the latter arising from both lower mean risk and more precise risk signals for white defendants.

Abstract: The extent that medical practice relies on evidence varies by specialty. Practices that become popular based on promising case studies are especially susceptible to evidence reversal. Medical reversal occurs when a procedure that is common in clinical practice is shown to be ineffective or even harmful. Failure to quickly abandon reversed practices dampens productivity in the medical sector and results in wasteful spending. I present preliminary evidence about the speed of de-adoption, using the procedures of vertebroplasy and percutaneous coronary interventions as case studies.

Marlous will be presenting The Great Convergence: Skill Accumulation and Mass Education in Africa and Asia, 1870-2010.

Abstract: While human capital has gained prominence in new vintages of growth theory, economists have struggled to find the positive externalities of mass education in developing economies. We shed new light on the economic significance of the global ‘schooling revolution’ by looking at a different indicator of human capital accumulation – the relative price of skilled labor – and placing it in a long-term global perspective. Based on a new wage dataset we constructed for various blue- and white-collar occupations in 50 African and Asian countries between 1870-2010, we reveal that skill-premiums have fallen dramatically everywhere in the course of the 20th century, and that they have now converged with levels that dominated in the West already for centuries. While such a ‘great convergence’ in skill-premiums is not a sufficient condition for Schumpeterian growth by itself, the growing availability of affordable skills is a necessary condition. Our findings therefore shed a more optimistic light on the long-term economic gains of mass education in the global South than standard growth regressions have hitherto done.

This presentation will address the surge of urban social actors who have changed the traditional criollo city of La Paz into a newly-born cholo/mestizo city shaped after the influence of new socio-economic sectors of mainly Aymara ethnic origins.

It is during the second half of the past century that the long underprivileged and belittled Quechua/Aymara merchants of the city of La Paz opened the doors to smuggling and to the informal economy that has neither been taxed nor monitored by any form of government. Quechua/Aymara merchants, often stigmatized as troublesome and unmanageable, expanded rapidly to challenge the formal economy ran by merchants of diverse European as well as Middle-Eastern origins (mainly Croatian, Lebanese, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and German).

Gastón Gallardo’s presentation will explore the spatial consequences that rose from the “physical” creation of a Quechua/Aymara black market that commercialized with clothing and other imported goods. This black market created a vast ambulant commerce of informal nature that dramatically changed La Paz, the site of Bolivia’s government. What did this mean symbolically? How should we conceptualize the enormous changes the city is encountering today between the rationalized European spatial models of the past and the new mestizo baroque architectural forms of the present? What are the connections between commerce and the vibrant mestizo festivities that have conquered artistically the traditional criollo city of the past?

Gastón Gallardo is a well-known Bolivian architect and urban planner. Professor Emeritus of the School of Architecture at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, the most important public university in Bolivia, Gallardo has also been its Dean of the School of Architecture, Arts, Design and Urbanism, from 2015 until 2018. He is also a founder member of the School of Architecture at Universidad Católica Boliviana, and has taught at the postgraduate level at several other universities. He holds degrees from Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Collegio d’Ingenierie della Toscana, Firenze, Italy, and has done postgraduate work in territorial and urban planning, in Italy and Argentina. Gallardo in widely published in Bolivia and Latin America, and is currently Vice President of the Bolivian Association of History.

Gallardo’s presentation will be in Spanish.

This event is co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

In the U.S., states compete to attract firms by offering discretionary subsidies, but little is known about how states choose their subsidy offers, and whether such subsidies affect firms' location choices. In this paper, I use an oral ascending (English) auction to model the subsidy ``bidding" process and estimate the efficiency of subsidy competition. The model allows state governments to value both the direct and indirect (spillover) job creation of firms when submitting bids, and firms to take both subsidies offered and state characteristics into account when choosing their location. To estimate my model, I hand-collect a new and unique dataset on state incentive spending and subsidy deals from 2002-2016. I estimate both the distribution of states' (revealed) valuations for firms that rationalizes observed subsidies, and firms' valuations for state characteristics. In order to allow states to value potential spillovers, I estimate the effect of subsidy-winning firms' locations on the entry decision of smaller firms, using a discrete choice entry model. I provide the first empirical evidence that states use subsidies to help large firms internalize the positive spillovers, in the form of indirect job creation, they have on the states. Moreover, subsidies have a sizable effect on firm locations. In particular, I find that without subsidies approximately 68% of firms would locate in a different state, and the number of anticipated indirect jobs created would decrease by 32%. With subsidies, total welfare (the sum of state valuations and firm profits) increases by 22%, but this welfare gain is captured entirely by the firms.

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

avid Saferstein is the co-founder, co-owner and Chief Executive Officer of Titan Capital ID, LLC (“Titan”), one of the largest private real estate lenders in the New York City metropolitan area. Since becoming CEO of Titan Capital in January of 2005, Mr. Saferstein has helped Titan originate over $3 Billion in bridge loans. Titan has offices in New York City, Connecticut and Miami. Mr. Saferstein oversees all aspects of the business including but not limited to loan origination, loan servicing, asset allocation, investor relations, credit facility relations with FDIC banks and property management of real estate owned.

Prior to joining Titan Capital, Mr. Saferstein founded G&D Trading Company, a broker/dealer specializing in derivatives trading with seats on the American Stock Exchange, Pacific Coast Exchange, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, COMEX, & CBOE. Mr. Saferstein is also the founder of the Saferstein Family Charitable Foundation which provides annual grants, research awards and educational support for Masters level programs for 5th year fellowship and other young investigators in the field of IBD and other gastrointestinal diseases.

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

Abstract
We show that individuals narrowly bracket their equity concerns. Across six experiments including 2,360 subjects, individuals equalize components of payoffs rather than overall payoffs. When earnings are comprised of “small tokens” worth 1 cent and “large tokens” worth 2 cents, subjects frequently equalize the distribution of small (or large) tokens rather than equalizing total earnings. When payoffs are comprised of time and money, subjects similarly equalize the distribution of time (or money) rather than total payoffs. In addition, subjects are more likely to equalize time than money. These findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant.

Professor Logan will speak on recent work in economic history, economic demography and applied microeconomics. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at PSC 2009-11.

His research in economic history concerns the development of living standards measures that can be used to directly asses the question of how the human condition has changed over time. He is currently extending his historical research agenda to include topics such as childhood health, mortality, morbidity, and racial disparities in health.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job training, taxes and cash transfers, and in-kind transfers. For each policy, we use existing causal estimates to calculate both the benefit that each policy provides its recipients (measured as their willingness to pay) and the policy’s net cost, inclusive of long-term impacts on the government’s budget. We divide the willingness to pay by the net cost to the government to form each policy’s Marginal Value of Public Funds, or its “MVPF”. Comparing MVPFs across policies provides a unified method of assessing their impact on social welfare. Our results suggest that direct investments in low-income children’s health and education have historically had the highest MVPFs, on average exceeding 5. Many such policies have paid for themselves as governments recouped the cost of their initial expenditures through additional taxes collected and reduced transfers. We find large MVPFs for education and health policies amongst children of all ages, rather than observing diminishing marginal returns throughout childhood. We find smaller MVPFs for policies targeting adults, generally between 0.5 and 2. Expenditures on adults have exceeded this MVPF range in particular if they induced large spillovers on children. We relate our estimates to existing theories of optimal government policy and we discuss how the MVPF provides lessons for the design of future research. All estimates can be also viewed in our interactive web tool at www.policyinsights.org.

This course provides students with the unique opportunity to examine business models for healthcare delivery in emerging markets. Join us at this information session to learn about the winter 2020 projects and travel locations!

Shooshan will be presenting Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from the Flint Water Switch.

Abstract: Emergency department visits are costly to providers and to patients. We use the Flint water crisis to test if an exogenous increase in office visits reduced avoidable emergency room visits. In September 2015, citizens in Flint became aware of increased lead levels in their drinking water, resulting from the switch from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Using Medicaid claims for 2013-2016, we find that this information shock increased the share of enrollees with lead tests by 1.7 percentage points. Additionally, it increased office visits immediately following the information shock, then decreased them afterwards. This led to a reduction of 4.9 preventable, non-emergent, and primary care treatable emergency room visits per 1000 eligible children (8.2%). This decrease is present in shifts from emergency room visits to office visits across several common conditions. Our results suggest following lead tests, children were more likely to receive care from the same clinic and that establishing care reduces the likelihood a parent will take their child to receive care at the emergency room for conditions treatable in an office setting. Our results are potentially applicable to any situation in which individuals are induced to seek more care in an office visit setting.

Martha will be presenting Reducing Out-of-Pocket Costs for Contraceptives Increases Use among Low-Income Women.

Abstract: In the U.S., nearly half of pregnancies are unintended, and unintended pregnancies occur twice as often among poor relative than in the U.S. population overall. The cost of effective contraception may be among the most important drivers of unintended pregnancies. Even with generous subsidies under Title X of the Public Health Services Act, the insertion of an IUD at Planned Parenthood costs $223 for uninsured women earning between 100 and 150% of the poverty line. To examine the role of costs in determining the use of contraception, the Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES) has randomized over 1,800 women at Michigan Planned Parenthood (PPMI) clinics to receive vouchers that reduce out-of-pocket costs for contraceptives. Using follow-up surveys and administrative records, we report on how vouchers for contraceptives impacted the use of any birth control the use of long-run acting contraceptives.

A growing body of evidence suggests that intergenerational mobility in the United States has declined over the past 150 years. However, research that finds high relative mobility in America’s past is based on data with few or no black families, and therefore does not account for the limited opportunities available for African Americans. Moreover, historical studies often measure the father’s economic status with error, which biases estimates towards higher mobility. Using new early 20th century data, I show that the persistence of economic status from father to son is over twice as strong after accounting for racial disparities and for measurement error. After addressing these two issues, I estimate that relative mobility has increased over the 20th century. The results imply that there is greater equality of opportunity today than in the early 20th century, mostly because opportunity in the past was never that equal.

How are Michigan Ross faculty members advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through business research? Each month, Business+Impact hosts an interactive design charette themed around one of these goals. During the month of October, we will address Goal 1: Poverty Alleviation. Four award-winning Ross faculty members will share their research in an informal setting and students will have the opportunity to brainstorm possible next steps for how the research can be applied to real-world applications that make a positive impact.
October's Faculty Experts: Bill Lovejoy, Aneel Karnani, Ted London, and Jerry Davis

We present evidence consistent with time-varying risk preferences among automobile drivers. Exploiting a unique dataset of agents’ high-frequency driving behavior collected by a mobile phone application, we show that driving behavior changes after driving mishaps. Following “near-miss” accidents (measured by hard brakes or hard turns), drivers drive more conservatively, which is consistent with increased risk aversion following such mishaps. In a preferred specification, a near-miss triggers a reduction in driving distance of 8.12 kilometers, in-car cellphone use by 88.80%, and highway use by 34.88%. Calibration results indicate that such changes in behavior are consistent with an increase in risk aversion of [???]% and a reduction in annual insurance cost amounting to about 0.05–1.54% of the average car insurance premium.

Dorian Warren, president of the Center for Community Change Action, will give a talk about his book, titled "The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy," as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Paul W Brown is a managing partner of eLab Ventures, a venture capital firm headquartered in Michigan with offices in Silicon Valley. Formerly the Vice President of Capital Markets at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), and before that practiced law in the Manhattan office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge John O’Meara in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Regent Brown is a past board member and observer of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, the Michigan Venture Capital Association, the Venture Michigan Fund, and several early stage IT and life-science companies. Regent Brown cofounded and was board chair of Front Door Insights. He has also taught courses on finance and entrepreneurship as a lecturer in the College of Engineering.

Rachel is currently the Head of Business Development at One Rockwell, a full-service ecommerce agency.
Her career is powered by a passion for helping brands grow their business, and in a belief that an exceptional brand story and the right technology are the foundational elements to sustained success. At One Rockwell she leads a team to generate leads, expand agency verticals, and collaborate with product to constantly evolve their offerings. Previously, over three years at Lyst, she co-led US partnerships generating industry buy-in for their proprietary technology and helping the site to amass over 2.5 million live products in their largest market.
Strengths include creative problem solving, industry alignment, a deep understanding of the ecommerce ecosystem, and creating a superior retail experience. Rachel has worked with brands including Dior, COTY, Vera Bradley, Schiaparelli Haute Couture, Farm Rio, American Eagle/aerie, and more. She carries an Economics degree from the University of Michigan and is on the Board of Advisors for the Michigan Fashion Media Summit (MFMS).

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

In the midst of Red and Black, one of Stendhal's characters makes a declaration, which can serve as an emblem of the 19th century: “All prudence must be renounced! This century was born to overwhelm everything! We are marching into chaos.” Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VII | On the 19th Century, endeavors to contribute to our understanding of this era, through the work of Profs. Tilottama Rajan and Lucy Hartley, who will present two papers: “Elements of Life: Organizing the Work of John Hunter,” and “Poverty, Progress, and Practicable Socialism: Henrietta Barnett, 1851-1936,” respectively.
For more information, please visit our website: https://ccctworkshop.wordpress.com/ ; or email us at: srdjan@umich.edu

Public housing benefits are rationed through waitlists. This paper argues that the range of allocation policies used across U.S. cities involves a trade-off between two policy objectives: maximizing welfare gains for tenants, and targeting the most economically disadvantaged applicants. Using waitlist data from Cambridge, MA, I develop and estimate a model of public housing preferences in a setting where heterogeneous apartments are rationed through waiting time. Counterfactual simulations show that the preferred mechanism depends on social preferences for redistribution. However, many cities use systems that would be suboptimal in Cambridge for any value of redistribution.

This paper shows that the impact of workplace incentive schemes can depend on the complexity of the scheme, and also the cognitive ability of the worker population, because these matter for whether certain features of the scheme are shrouded attributes. Specifically, the findings indicate that complexity and bounded rationality can cause workers to overlook a dynamic aspect of workplace incentive contracts that would otherwise create perverse incentives to reduce effort, the so-called ratchet effect. The findings are based on a combination of large-scale, long-term field experiments within a warehouse, online experiments conducted with the same worker population, and online experiments conducted with workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The field experiments find only a weak ratchet effect. The online experiments build the case that for many workers, particularly those with lower cognitive ability, ratchet effects may be weak because in the relatively complex scheme, the dynamic aspect of incentives is a shrouded attribute. Making the scheme simpler causes the ratchet effect to emerge. The evidence suggests that there may be an optimal degree of complexity that allows firms to harness static incentives while avoiding perverse dynamic incentives. A systematic analysis of what types of changes to the contract make the ratchet effect stronger or weaker provides findings with implications for incentive design as well as shedding light on the nature of complexity in general.

Professor Deng and his co-authors propose a method to estimate not only the relative size of unofficial incomes but also the pervasiveness of corruption based on large asset purchases. Additionally, they applied this idea to a unique Chinese data and provide a first estimate of the proportion of officials who take in unofficial incomes. They have found that an average official’s unofficial income is 83% of his/her official income, and 57% of the officials have an unofficial income and this proportion rises with the rank. They also tested and reject the notion that unofficial incomes are a compensation for below-the-market government salaries.

Yongheng Deng is a Professor and the John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining Wisconsin School of Business, Professor Deng has served as a Provost's Chair Professor of Real Estate and Finance, Director of the Institute of Real Estate Studies, and Head of the Department of Real Estate, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also a Professor in the Department of Finance at NUS Business School, and Director of the Lifecycle Financing Research Program at NUS Global Asia Institute. Professor Deng was also a Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), School of Policy, Planning and Development, and the Marshall School of Business.

Professor Deng holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of California at Berkeley, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Wharton Real Estate Center, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. While Professor Deng’s recent research interest is in evaluating conditions in Asian and China’s real estate markets; his research pertains to a wide variety of issues in residential and commercial real estate finance and capital market worldwide. That includes real estate related financial capital market and asset-backed security pricing and risk analysis, econometric analysis of competing risks of mortgage prepayment and default with unobserved heterogeneity.

Professor Deng has published his research works in leading economics and finance journals. Some of those journals include “Econometrica,” “Journal of Financial Economics,” “Journal of Urban Economics,” “Review of Finance,” “China Economic Review,” “European Economic Review,” “Capitalism and Society,” and “Real Estate Economics,” among others. Major global media have frequently cited his research works, for example, “Wall Street Journal,” “New York Times,” “Economist Magazine,” “Telegraph,” “Forbes,” “People’s Daily” (China), and more.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

The northern United States long served as a land of opportunity for black Americans, but today the region's racial gap in intergenerational mobility rivals that of the South. I show that racial composition changes during the peak of the Great Migration (1940-1970) reduced upward mobility in northern cities in the long run, with the largest effects on black men. I identify urban black population increases during the Migration at the commuting zone level using a shift-share instrument, interacting pre-1940 black southern migration patterns with predicted out-migration from southern counties. The Migration's negative effects on children's adult outcomes appear driven by neighborhood factors, not changes in the characteristics of the average child. As early as the 1960s, the Migration led to greater white enrollment in private schools, increased spending on policing, and higher crime and incarceration rates. I estimate that the overall change in childhood environment induced by the Great Migration explains 28% of the upward mobility gap between black and white households in the region today.

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution – Speaker: Eric London
• The origins of the Civil War
• The role of white workers in the abolition of slavery
• How did Marx view the Civil War?
• Reconstruction, the emergence of the working class, and the origins of Jim Crow

Eric London is a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party and writer for the World Socialist Web Site with a focus on US politics, immigration, US history, Latin America, workers struggles and democratic rights. He is also the author of the recently released book Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the US and its youth and student movement, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), is holding a series of meetings on “Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America.”

This series is the socialist answer to the New York Times “1619 Project,” which has been accompanied by an unprecedented publicity blitz, including at schools and campuses throughout the country. The occasion they cite for the publication of this project is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of 20 African slaves at Port Comfort, Virginia.

The Times project raises the question: Is race the driving force of history, as the Times insists? Or, as Karl Marx analyzed, is it class? Is “anti-black racism … in the very DNA of this country” as the Times writes? Or is the history of the United States fundamentally the history of class struggle? As social inequality reaches record levels, is America heading toward race war or socialist revolution?

The promotion of the 1619 Project takes place under conditions of expanding class struggle internationally and a growing interest in socialism among workers and youth in the United States. Its aim is to block the development of a united movement of workers across all races by cultivating racial divisions.

These meetings will refute the historical falsifications advanced in the 1619 Project, explain their underlying political motivations and present the strategy for socialist revolution in America today.

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

I study a bargaining game in which a seller makes offers to a buyer. The buyer is privately informed about her valuation, and the seller privately observes her stochastically changing production cost. The seller's time-varying private information gives rise to new dynamics. Prices fall gradually at the early stages of negotiations, and trade is inefficiently delayed. Inefficiencies persist even when gains from trade are common knowledge. Privately observed costs lead to lower welfare, higher seller revenue and lower buyer surplus (especially for high-value buyers) relative to a setting with publicly-observed costs.

The goals of this Symposium are to provide historical and political context for current issues of property dispossession and to consider how governments, private industry, and private citizens can together seek reform. We are excited to bring together voices from law, policy, city government, community organizations, and more to engage the audience on this critical topic! Whether your interests are in tax foreclosure, bankruptcy, or Detroit's story of dispossession, we hope you will join us.

The goals of this Symposium are to provide historical and political context for current issues of property dispossession and to consider how governments, private industry, and private citizens can together seek reform. We are excited to bring together voices from law, policy, city government, community organizations, and more to engage the audience on this critical topic! Whether your interests are in tax foreclosure, bankruptcy, or Detroit's story of dispossession, we hope you will join us.

Why do freeways aﬀect the spatial organization of the economy? We identify freeway disameni-ties in urban areas and quantify their eﬀects. First, freeways had negative eﬀects on central neighborhoods but positive eﬀects on suburban neighborhoods. These diverging patterns iden-tify freeway disamenities in a theory where disamenities outweigh minimal access beneﬁts near downtown, but superior access beneﬁts outweigh disamenities on the periphery. Second, in a quantitative spatial general equilibrium model, the welfare costs of freeway disamenities are large, and one-third of the causal eﬀect of freeways on central-city decline can be attributed to quality of life eﬀects. Third, barrier eﬀects are signiﬁcant and a major factor in the dis-amenity value of living near a freeway. Disamenities from freeways, as opposed to their regional accessibility beneﬁts, had large eﬀects on the spatial structure of cities, suburbanization, and welfare.

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

Micro-randomized trials (MRTs) are a new experimental design for optimizing just-in-time adaptive interventions. In addition to informing intervention design, however, MRTs can also provide insights into the underlying psychosocial processes that mediate intervention response. In this talk, I will describe some of the recent findings from the HeartSteps project which show that mHealth interventions provided in the exact same way (in our case, as push notifications suggesting to individuals how they can be active in their current context) can have different dynamics, suggesting that the response to them is mediated by different underlying processes. I suggest that, in addition to supporting intervention design, MRTs can be a powerful tool for studying human behavior in a granular way in the midst of messiness of day-to-day life.

Bio

Predrag "Pedja" Klasnja is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He works at the intersection of human-computer interaction and behavioral science, and he studies how mobile technologies can help individuals make and sustain health-protective lifestyle changes. He is particularly interested in the design and evaluation of just-in-time adaptive interventions, technologies that continuously adapt their functioning to provide optimal support to individuals as their needs and circumstances change.

We develop tools for utilizing correspondence experiments to detect illegal discrimination by individual employers. Employers violate US employment law if their propensity to contact applicants depends on protected characteristics such as race or sex. We establish identification of higher moments of the causal effects of protected characteristics on callback rates as a function of the number of fictitious applications sent to each job ad. These moments are used to bound the fraction of jobs that illegally discriminate. Applying our results to three experimental datasets, we find evidence of significant employer heterogeneity in discriminatory behavior, with the standard deviation of gaps in job-specific callback probabilities across protected groups averaging roughly twice the mean gap. In a recent experiment manipulating racially distinctive names, we estimate that at least 85% of jobs that contact both of two white applications and neither of two black applications are engaged in illegal discrimination. To assess more carefully the tradeoff between type I and II errors presented by these behavioral patterns, we consider the performance of a series of decision rules for investigating suspicious callback behavior under a simple two-type model that rationalizes the experimental data. Though, in our preferred specification, only 17% of employers are estimated to discriminate on the basis of race, we find that an experiment sending 10 applications to each job would enable accurate detection of 7-10% of discriminators while falsely accusing fewer than 0.2% of non-discriminators. A minimax decision rule acknowledging partial identification of the joint distribution of callback rates yields higher error rates but more investigations than our baseline two-type model. Our results suggest illegal labor market discrimination can be reliably monitored with relatively small modifications to existing audit designs. (joint with Patrick Kline)

The literature finds a high degree of economic mobility for men in the 19th century in comparison to today. However, due to data limitations, changes in female economic mobility over time are not well understood. Using a set of marriage certificates from Massachusetts over the period of 1850-1910, we link men and women to their childhood and adult census records to obtain a measure of occupational standing across two generations. Intergenerational mobility for women is higher than for men during 1850-1880. Between 1880-1910, men’s mobility increases to converge with that of women. We also find evidence of assortative mating based on the correlation in occupational income score and real estate wealth between the husband’s and wife’s fathers.

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

Please join us for the latest installment in the ELPP Lecture Series. Professor Alexandra Klass from the University of Minnesota Law School will discuss recent developments in U.S. energy law, policy, economics, and technology. Although President Trump and his cabinet Secretaries, particularly at the Interior Department, Energy Department, and Environmental Protection Agency, have announced dramatic policy shifts away from those pursued during the Obama Administration, the new administration’s ability to accomplish its goals is in some instances helped and in other instances hindered by existing federal and state laws as well as private sector technology and economic trends. Topics will include the shift away from the use of coal and toward natural gas and renewable energy in the electricity sector; the use of federal public lands to develop oil, natural gas, coal, wind, and solar energy; developments in technology and law associated with hydraulic facturing ("fracking"); and controversies over new oil and gas pipelines such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Alexandra B. Klass teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, environmental law, natural resources law, tort law, and property law. Her recent scholarly work, published in many of the nation’s leading law journals, addresses regulatory challenges to integrating more renewable energy into the nation’s electric grid, transportation electrification, oil and gas transportation infrastructure, and the use of eminent domain for electric transmission lines and pipelines. She is a co-author of Energy Law: Concepts and Insights Series (Foundation Press 2017), Energy Law and Policy (West Academic Publishing 2d ed. 2018), Natural Resources Law: A Place-Based Book of Problems and Cases (Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed., 2018), and The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law (Foundation Press, 4th ed. 2017). Professor Klass was named the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year for 2009-2010, and she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2010-2012. She was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2015. She is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and in prior years was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law and the Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow.

Prior to her teaching career, Professor Klass was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, where she specialized in environmental law, natural resources, and land use matters. During her years in private practice from 1993-2004, she handled cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts involving contaminated property, wetlands, environmental review, mining, environmental rights, zoning, eminent domain, and environmental torts. She clerked for the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin from 1992-1993.

“Network Adequacy Regulations” intend to help consumers by forcing “narrow-network” insurance plans to include more hospitals. But they can also give hospitals excessive bargaining leverage, leading to increased reimbursement rates and premiums. To study this, I develop and estimate a model of network formation and bargaining between hospitals and insurers. Crucially, my bargaining formulation allows insurers to threaten to replace an in-network hospital with an out-of-network one. Applied to a health insurance market in Massachusetts, my model predicts that regulations mandating large minimum network sizes can raise prices substantially. Also, surprisingly, network adequacy regulations can cause “broad-network” plans to downsize.

We investigate whether individuals who are made aware of their stereotypes change their behavior, studying teacher bias in Italian schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students compared to natives with the same performance in standardized tests. Differences in grading are bigger for teachers with stronger stereotypes, elicited through an Implicit Associa-tion Test (IAT). We reveal teachers their own IAT score, randomizing the timing of disclosure. Teachers informed before grading increase grades assigned to immigrants. This result is driven by teachers who do not report explicit views against immigrants and who receive a more precise signal of their implicit bias.

Join RSQE & the Department of Economics for a networking and career-focused event for students and professionals interested in internships, mentoring, career opportunities, and networking with professionals and alumni.

This event, which is co-sponsored by Oxford Bank, Regional Economic Models, Inc, and KLA is open to students of all levels and will have a strong presence from organizations in the economics, finance, and public policy fields. Organizations who will have tables at the event include the City of Detroit, General Motors, State of Michigan, Nationwide, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Right Place.

Noise can be efficiently introduced by a decision-maker into data to protect identity (differential privacy) or to reduce gaming between a decision-maker and an agent who can the manipulate data. We present a new benefit of noise: to efficiently reduce distortions in a second-best setting. We derive a condition---which quickly converges to standard DARA preferences in the number of agents---where the introduction of noise in the private provision of public goods is Pareto improving. Despite producing a risk cost, noise reduces free-riding, which is more valuable under our condition. The effect is large: total Nash giving, while still less than first best, now diverges in the number of donors instead of converges (the standard result). A second application relates to tax.

Intertemporal choices involving tradeoffs between benefits and time costs are ubiquitous in both human and animal lives. Several proposals argue that nonhumans are stuck in the ‘now’, whereas future-orienting cognition allows humans to think ahead and make adaptive decisions. What is the ultimate function of high levels of patience, and why do such abilities emerge? I will argue that a suite of decision-making capacities including inter-temporal choice and future planning evolved in the context of foraging behaviors, and vary with ecological complexity across species. Then, I will examine how these capacities for self-control can be generalized from foraging contexts to solve new but evolutionarily-important problems, like cooking food. Finally, I will present work testing the hypothesis that low levels of self-control constrain cooperation in primates, and therefore may explain human-unique forms of ultra-sociality.

Health insurance typically covers not only the small probability, large loss events emphasized by theory but also routine services like regular checkups. Usage of such services responds to liquidity shocks; people cut back when times are tight, such as during an unemployment spell. As a result, coverage of such services is least valuable in the states of the world in which marginal utility is greatest---an anti-insurance effect. Whether the net effect of health insurance is to improve or worsen risk exposure depends on the insured's relative exposure to health versus non-health risks. I find that for many U.S. households, health insurance worsens risk exposure; on average it targets states of the world in which marginal utility is relatively low. This highlights an important cost of the many policies that subsidize health insurance or health care.

Asia has made remarkable progress over the past decades and is now at the forefront of the global economy in growth terms. That said, there are several near-term risks that could derail Asia’s growth momentum, including trade tensions and too-low-for-long global interest rates. At the same time, there are fundamental challenges to Asia’s long-term prospects, such as the slowdown of potential growth, ageing, rising inequality, and the challenges and opportunities posed by the digital economy. In this talk, Chang Yong Rhee, Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund, will discuss Asia as a growth pole in the past, present, and future.

Changyong Rhee is the Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he oversees the Fund’s work on the region, including its lending operations and bilateral and multilateral surveillance of economies ranging from China, Japan, and India to the Pacific Islands. Before joining the IMF in 2014, Mr. Rhee was Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB); Secretary General and Sherpa of the Presidential Committee for the 2010 G-20 Seoul Summit; Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission of Korea; professor of economics at Seoul National University and the University of Rochester. He has also been a frequent policy advisor to the Government of Korea, including in the Office of the President, the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Bank of Korea, the Korea Securities Depository, and the Korea Development Institute. He has published widely in the fields of macroeconomics, financial economics, and on the Korean economy. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and an undergraduate honors degree from Seoul National University, both in economics.

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

In a variety of markets with private options, the optimal level of public provision may require balancing a tradeoff between reducing private options’ market power with the possibility of crowding out potentially high-quality products. These considerations are particularly relevant in many developing countries’ education systems where private schools capture high market shares while public schools are overcrowded. We study the equilibrium effects of public provision in the context of a large expansion of public schools in the Dominican Republic. Over a five-year period, the government aimed to increase the number of public school classrooms by 78%. Using an event study framework, we estimate the effect of a new public school on neighborhood outcomes and competing private schools, where we instrument for how quickly the public school construction project finished with whether the procurement lottery randomly assigned the project to a firm or an unaffiliated individual. We find that a new public increased neighborhood students’ test scores, both in the public and private sectors. As public enrollment increased, a large number of private schools closed while the surviving schools lowered prices and increased investment in school quality. To study how the provision of high quality schools varies with the level of public provision, and to compare the effects to the alternative policy of public financing, we specify an empirical model of demand (students choosing schools) and supply (schools choosing whether to stay open, how much to invest in quality, and what price to charge).

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

Is a school’s impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we exploit quasi-random school assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago. We construct exogenous instruments for each individual school and estimate the causal impacts of individual schools on several short- and longer-run outcomes. Schools’ impacts on high-stakes tests are weakly related to impacts on low-stakes tests, dropout, crime, teen motherhood, and formal labor market participation. To answer the second question, we link estimated school
impacts to parents’ ranked lists of schools. We propose a modified mulitnomial logit model that allows one to infer preferences for school attributes even in some settings where choices are strategic. Parents of higher-achieving students value schools that improve high-stakes test scores conditional on average outcomes, proximity, and even peer quality. Parents also value schools that reduce crime and increase formal labor market participation. Most parents’ preferences for school impacts on labor-market and crime outcomes are, as strong, or stronger than those for test scores. These results provide a potential explanation for recent findings that parent preferences are not strongly related to test-score impacts. They also suggest that evaluations based solely on test scores may be very misleading about the welfare effects of school choice.

I develop a framework for studying repeated matching markets, where in every period, a new generation of short-lived agents on one side of the market is matched to a fixed set of long-lived institutions on the other. Within this framework, I characterize self-enforcing arrangements for two types of environments. When wages are rigid, as in the matching market for hospitals and medical residents, players can be partitioned into two sets: regardless of patience level, some players can be assigned only according to a static stable matching; when institutions are patient, the other players can be assigned in ways that are unstable in one-shot interactions. I discuss these results’ implications for allocating residents to rural hospitals. When wages can be flexibly adjusted, I show that with flexible wages, repeated interaction resolves well-known non-existence issues: while static stable matchings may fail to exist with complementarities and/or peer effects, self-enforcing matching processes always exist if institutions are sufficiently patient.

Does automatic enrollment into a retirement plan increase borrowing outside the plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan. Four years after hire, automatic enrollment causes no significant change in credit scores (point estimate 0.001 standard deviations) or debt balances excluding auto loans and first mortgages (point estimate -0.6% of annual salary). We also find no significant increase in auto loan and first mortgage balances in our main regression specification, although the estimated increases in these categories are economically and statistically significant in alternative specifications.

Each year, more than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them. Many cities have recently implemented policies aimed at reducing the number of evictions, motivated by research showing strong associations between being evicted and subsequent adverse economic outcomes. Yet it is difficult to determine to what extent those associations represent causal relationships, because eviction itself is likely to be a consequence of adverse life events. This paper addresses that challenge and offers new causal evidence on how eviction affects financial distress, residential mobility, and neighborhood quality. We collect the near-universe of Cook County court records over a period of seventeen years, and link these records to credit bureau and payday loans data. Using this data, we characterize the trajectory of financial strain in the run-up and aftermath of eviction court for both evicted and non-evicted households, finding high levels and striking increases in financial strain in the years before an eviction case is filed. Guided by this descriptive evidence, we employ two approaches to draw causal inference on the effect of eviction. The first takes advantage of the panel data through a difference-in-differences design. The second is an instrumental variables strategy, relying on the fact that court cases are randomly assigned to judges of varying leniency. We find that eviction negatively impacts credit access and durable consumption for several years. However, the effects are small relative to the financial strain experienced by both evicted and non-evicted tenants in the run-up to an eviction filing.

Business+Impact and U-M’s Center for the Study of Complex Systems will again bring together U-M scholars from across disciplinary boundaries to ponder big questions about how society should best choose the institutions/methodologies to make choices that will influence and contribute to a society’s or organizations’ ability to flourish. These institutions and mechanisms guide, manage, allocate, and harness society’s intellectual, financial, social, and ecological resources to decide on laws, policies, and leaders.

Some featured participants include Tom Malone, former CEO of Summa, and Scott E. Page of the University of Michigan.

Business+Impact and U-M’s Center for the Study of Complex Systems will again bring together U-M scholars from across disciplinary boundaries to ponder big questions about how society should best choose the institutions/methodologies to make choices that will influence and contribute to a society’s or organizations’ ability to flourish. These institutions and mechanisms guide, manage, allocate, and harness society’s intellectual, financial, social, and ecological resources to decide on laws, policies, and leaders.

Some featured participants include Tom Malone, former CEO of Summa, and Scott E. Page of the University of Michigan.

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

Readings to consider:
1. Neuroethics and the Problem of Other Minds: Implications of Neuroscience for the Moral Status of Brain-Damaged Patients and Nonhuman Animals
2. Undocumented Patients: Undocumented Immigrants and Access to Health Care
3. Bioethics and International Human Rights
4. Against culturally sensitive bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/038-others/.

I hear every one else is reading the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

Barbara Ransby is an historian, writer, and longtime political activist. Ransby has published dozens of articles and essays in popular and scholarly venues. She is most notably the author of an award-winning biography of civil rights activist Ella Baker, entitled Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision(University of North Carolina, 2003), which won no less than six major awards.
Barbara’s most recent book is "Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the 21st Century" (2018). She serves on the editorial boards of The Black Commentator (an online journal); the London-based journal, Race and Class; the Justice, Power and Politics Series at University of North Carolina Press; and the Scholar’s Advisory Committee of Ms. magazine. In the summer of 2012 she became the second Editor-in-Chief of SOULS, a critical journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society published quarterly.
Professor Ransby received a BA in History from Columbia University and an MA and PhD in History from the University of Michigan.

In the spirit of Dr. King's strides towards social justice, the new Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) program in LSA is partnering with UROP to highlight social science research by undergraduate students focusing on social justice and furthering knowledge of humankind and their interactions within societies. Make Your Questions Count: Students and Social Justice in the Data Age will include posters of undergraduate student research, as well as a discussion about the advantages and pitfalls of applying data - big and small - to questions addressing society and social justice.

Join us for LUNCH and LEARNING on Friday, January 24 from noon-2pm in the newly renovated Michigan Union's Pond Room (1st floor - by the Panera entrance).

SOCIAL SCIENCE MAJORS/MINORS: If you've done work in the social justice arena and would like YOUR research to be featured in our event, submit your poster and information about your project to https://forms.gle/5DNL4vhbmo9RP9vf9 no later than midnight on Wednesday, January 22 to be included in the program. Participation in UROP is not required to submit your project!

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

Register to attend the Privacy@Michigan Symposium and Research Showcase Tuesday, January 28, 1 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre (4th floor) and celebrate the 2020 International Data Privacy Day. Attendance is free and open to the public but space is limited. Please RSVP.

For a schedule of events and to register visit: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/privacy-at-michigan/2020

Kathleen Kingsbury, editor of The New York Times Privacy Project, will give the keynote address. Multi-disciplinary experts will participate in panel discussions on a range of privacy-related topics. A privacy fair including a privacy clinic, where students help with general privacy questions, and posters showcasing privacy research at the University of Michigan will be available throughout the afternoon.

This event organized by the University of Michigan School of Information, University of Michigan Information Assurance, and the Dissonance Event Series.

Readings to consider:
1. 2019 State of the State
2. Michigan Health Policy for the Incoming 2019 Gubernatorial Administration
3. ACA Exchange Competitiveness in Michigan
4. Flint Water Crisis: What Happened and Why?

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/039-michigan/.

For the ever-present state of things, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

Investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and sales professionals generate revenue, but operations professionals are who ensure the success of the firm. If you are interested in helping firms more efficiently operate, shaping the talent of the organization, or ensuring that work complies with legal standards then join Sculptor for a crash course on the work.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- An LSA junior interested in learning about how firms run from people to processes
- Interested in pursuing a career in Manhattan
- Focused on a career in Operations, Human Capital, Legal, Compliance, IT, or Tax

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Valuable connections with a leading hedge firm interested in talented LSA students
- A better understanding of the variety of operations roles within a finance firm
- Hands on experience with a case study led by professionals who do the work

How to apply:
- Submit your résumé and write a few (brief) statements by Thursday, Feb 6th at 11:59p

Startup Career Fair provides students with the opportunity to pursue their passion and get paid for it. From Productiv in San Francisco to Choco from Berlin, world-renowned startups with mission-driven teams are waiting to hire you.

We invite you to join us on February 7 from 12-4pm at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. Register by February 4th and you'll be entered into a lottery for an invitation to our exclusive networking breakfast with recruiters. Can’t wait to see you #Launch.

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

Bulgaria is arguably one of the oldest wine-producing countries in the world, and built a large, highly industrialized and export-oriented wine sector during state socialism as a wine-producing specialist of COMECON (the economic alliance of Soviet allies). When socialism collapsed in 1989, the wine industry faced multiple challenges, including the accepted international hierarchy of wine-producing countries through which Bulgarian wines then became understood and marketed. In this talk, I examine the contestations over the idea of *terroir* (a taste of place) among Bulgarian wine professionals to understand how wine is involved in heritage projects. As new resources and opportunities became available through EU heritage politics in which wine traditions became a central piece of the heritage industry and of agricultural and rural development, these debates highlight diverse meanings of ecological stewardship in light of heritage preservation. Understanding wine as a cultural heritage raises important questions of whose and which past is worthy of preservation, and why. The tensions within the Bulgarian wine industry, namely reconciling the cultural pride of winemaking heritage with a competitive hierarchical global wine market, illustrate the multi-faceted aspects of culture, ecology, and politics in the era of post-Cold War globalization.

Yuson Jung is associate professor of anthropology at Wayne State University. Her research explores issues of consumption, food politics, globalization, and postsocialism. She is the author of "Balkan Blues: Consumer Politics after State Socialism" (Indiana University Press, 2019) which examines everyday consumer experience in postsocialist Bulgaria. She has also co-edited (with Jakob Klein and Melissa Caldwell) "Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World" (University of California Press, 2014). Currently, she is working on a book project entitled "The Cultural Politics of Wine: Globalization, Heritage, and the Transformation of the Bulgarian Wine Industry," as well as on a collaborative research project (with Andrew Newman) regarding food politics and urban governance in Detroit.

This lecture is part of the WCEE environment series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Join us on Friday, February 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the Kuenzel Room at the Michigan Union (530 S State St) for AIM Extended Reality (XR). We’ll welcome Kavya Pearlman, founder of non-profit, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), the very first global effort that promotes privacy, security, ethics and develops standards and guidelines for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR) collectively known as XR. Kavya is the second of three speakers focused on XR scheduled throughout the Winter/Spring 2020 semester. Please register below if you plan to attend.

Title: How to Build SAFE Virtual Worlds !?!

Description: We need to create SAFE immersive environments! Simply because, XR misuse by attackers can potentially lead to psychological, physical, reputational, social and economic harm. In this session, XRSI founder and CEO, Kavya Pearlman explores the potential of threats in XR systems, how to mitigate them and how to better protect end-users and enterprises moving forward. This session will approach the topic from multiple different directions. An introduction to XR domain, and discuss XR specific security challenges, concerns, constraints overlap and the types of threat XR is experiencing and may experience in the future. Discussion on issues of privacy and trust in the context of cyber-attacks, child safety, disinformation, and propaganda. Finally, framing how the industry can respond to these challenges: Actionable advice on how to create SAFE immersive environments in order to move from research prototypes and early demonstrators to secure, reliable and trustworthy systems that can play a more significant role in everyday life.

Bio: Well known as the “Cyber Guardian”, Kavya Pearlman is an Award-winning cybersecurity professional with a deep interest in immersive and emerging technologies. Kavya is the founder of non-profit, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), the very first global effort that promotes privacy, security, ethics and develops standards and guidelines for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR) collectively known as XR.

Kavya is constantly exploring new technologies to solve current cybersecurity challenges. She has been named one of the Top Cybersecurity influencers for two consecutive years 2018-2019 by IFSEC Global. Kavya has won many awards for her work and contribution to the security community including 40 under 40 Top Business Executives 2019 by San Francisco Business Times, Rising Star of the year 2019 by Women in IT Award Series and Minority CISO of the Year 2018 by ICMCP. For her work with XR Safety Initiative, Middle East CISO Council awarded her – CISO 100 Women Security Leader award in Dubai and she has been nominated for being “Innovator of The Year 2019 by Women in IT Award Series. Kavya Pearlman is also the Cybersecurity Strategist at Wallarm, a global security company that uses artificial intelligence to protect hundreds of customers across e-commerce, fin-tech, health-tech, and SaaS via their application security platform.

AIM Extended Reality (XR) is an all new event series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation that will explore how extended reality (XR) is being used in higher education and beyond. This speaker series stems from a Provost to engage in a new campus-wide XR Initiative. This initiative will formally ask us to consider how we can leverage emerging XR technologies to strengthen the quality of a Michigan education, cultivate an interdisciplinary scholarly community of practice at Michigan, and enhance a nationwide network for academic innovation. Learn more about the initiative on our XR initiative page.

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

Donald Trump and his fascist allies declare the US “will never be a socialist country.” Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg proclaim their desire to save the Democratic Party from socialists, while Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) claim socialism means working within the Democratic Party for mild reforms. The ruling class, presiding over a society dominated by inequality, war and state repression, increasingly views socialism as an immediate threat.

The Socialist Equality Party is running in the 2020 elections to explain what socialism really means. Join the SEP’s candidates—Joseph Kishore for President and Norissa Santa Cruz for Vice President—in the historic struggle to unite all workers internationally, independent of the political parties of the ruling class. The working class is the social force that can replace capitalism with international socialism.

This town hall meeting with Joseph Kishore is part of a national series of meetings being held across the United States, hosted by the IYSSE and the SEP.

Readings to consider:
1. Having Children: Reproductive Ethics in the Face of Overpopulation
2. The Ethics of Controlling Population Growth in the Developing World
3. Overpopulation and the Threat of Ecological Disaster: The Need for Global Bioethics
4. Threats and burdens: Challenging scarcity-driven narratives of “overpopulation”

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/041-overpopulation/.

If it's not too crowded, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

Shared housing programs are making a re-emergence amidst the rapid aging of our nation’s population. This is due in part to the desire of many older adults to “age in place;” or remain in the home as they age, rather than explore traditional senior housing options. This lecture will discuss the concept of shared housing, and look at a few programs from across the country, with an emphasis one right here in Michigan. Brittney M. Williams, LLMSW is a geriatric social worker, and the coordinator of the HomeShare Program in the Housing Bureau for Seniors at Michigan Medicine. The Study Group for those 50 and over is held on Wednesday February 26.

Abstract:
We examine a determinant of cultural persistence that has emerged from a class of models in evolutionary anthropology: the similarity of the environment across generations. Within these models, when the environment is more similar across generations, the traits that have evolved up to the previous generation are more likely to be optimal for the current generation. In equilibrium, a greater value is placed on tradition and there is greater cultural persistence. We test this hypothesis by measuring the variability of different climatic measures across 20-year generations from 500-1900. Employing a variety of tests, each using different samples and empirical strategies, we find that populations with ancestors who lived in environments with more cross-generational instability place less importance in maintaining tradition today and exhibit less cultural persistence.

Abstract:
We examine a determinant of cultural persistence that has emerged from a class of models in evolutionary anthropology: the similarity of the environment across generations. Within these models, when the environment is more similar across generations, the traits that have evolved up to the previous generation are more likely to be optimal for the current generation. In equilibrium, a greater value is placed on tradition and there is greater cultural persistence. We test this hypothesis by measuring the variability of different climatic measures across 20-year generations from 500-1900. Employing a variety of tests, each using different samples and empirical strategies, we find that populations with ancestors who lived in environments with more cross-generational instability place less importance in maintaining tradition today and exhibit less cultural persistence.

Abstract:
We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which enable public access to the salaries of individual faculty if they exceed specified thresholds, were introduced in different provinces at different times. Using detailed administrative data covering the majority of faculty in Canada, and an event-study research design that exploits within-province variation in exposure to the policy across institutions and academic departments, we find robust evidence that that the laws reduced the gender pay gap between men and women by approximately 30 percent. There is suggestive evidence that higher female salaries contributed to the narrowing of the gender gap. The reduction in the gender gap is primarily in universities where faculty are unionized.

Readings to consider:
1. The right to public health
2. Ethics and Public Health: Forging a Strong Relationship
3. Old Myths, New Myths: Challenging Myths in Public Health
4. A Bridge Back to the Future: Public Health Ethics, Bioethics, and Environmental Ethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/042-public-health/.

A public good for the good of the public – the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

This paper examines how political, social, and economic regime changes affect the lifecycles of manufacturing plants exploiting Japan’s transition from a feudal regime to a modern regime in the late nineteenth century as a natural experiment. Using plant-level data for 1902, including the foundation year of each plant, we explored how the experience-size profiles of plants differ before and after the regime change. Plants were found to grow much faster after the regime change and the acceleration of growth after the regime change was much greater for the plants in exporting industries, industries intensively using steam power, and plants adopting a corporate form. These findings suggest that access to export markets, access to modern technologies, and availability of the modern corporate form were the channels through which the regime change affected the experience-size profile of plants.

Tetsuji Okazaki is Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He served as President of the International Economic History Association from 2015 to 2018. He has published extensively in major journals in economic history and economics, including Journal of Economic History and American Economic Review. His recent research interests include history of industrial organization and history of income distribution.

*This event is cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit*.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Juan Carlos Thomas, Director of Entrepreneurship at TechnoServe, a nonprofit organization focused on harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty, will be the next WDI Global Impact Speaker.

Thomas’s talk, “Local Businesses, Global Entrepreneurship: A Journey to Build Impact,” will explore effective ways to support entrepreneurs and small and growing businesses around the world. It is scheduled for 5-6 p.m., March 12 in Room B1560 (Blau Building) at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The discussion is free and open to the public.

Thomas leads the development and deployment of best practices in the support of entrepreneurs and small and growing businesses in the organization’s projects. Before assuming his current role, he served as TechnoServe’s Chile Country Director. Among his accomplishments in that role, he led the first inclusive business development program in Chile; the first small business accelerator program in Patagonia; several economic development programs in communities surrounding energy and mining projects; and the design of business development methodologies now being used in Latin America and Africa.

Before opening the TechnoServe office in Chile in 2008, Juan Carlos worked in the Corporate Finance and Capital Markets division at Bank Boston Chile. He has lectured on finance, entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship at various universities. Thomas holds an MBA from INSEAD and a bachelor’s degree from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

The 2020 Ferrando Lecture has been canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Capitalism as we know it has gotten us this far, but there are serious questions about how much farther it can take us. Inequality, fractured social institutions, and, most importantly, the climate crisis are all huge, systemic challenges that are unlikely to be solved by more economic growth and preserving the status quo. To right the ship, we need a new way to see. In this talk, Yancey Strickler, the cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, presents a new vision for defining value and self-interest, and a whole new frontier of work to be done defining and growing a wider spectrum of value. Building on research and ideas shared in his book “This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World,” Strickler will make the case that the generation coming up will be the ones to lead us into the post-capitalist era where values pluralism, rather than the monoculture of financial value, will be the new norm for defining the health and success of organizations and society.

Yancey Strickler is the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World (2019).

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B, and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

Due to our commitment to ensuring the safety of our students and the broader U-M community, the LSA Opportunity Hub has decided to cancel this event.

RSVP to the event to receive a handout and mini-video. Please contact Megan Downey, <medowney@umich.edu> if you have any related questions.

Unlike other interview types, case interviews require additional prep and practice because of their problem-solving nature. Consulting firms like McKinsey, BCG and Bain are known to use case interviews as a means of recruiting candidates. Attend this workshop to get the inside scoop on the different types of case interviews you could encounter and how to tackle them.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts or sciences student
- Majoring in Economics, Statistics, or related studies or exploring Consulting as a potential major/minor
- Pursuing a career in Consulting or related fields after graduation
- Interested in developing professional skills that will make you career-ready

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Learn different types of case interviews and adopt a strategy to approaching them
- Practice case interviews in small group and panel settings and get real-time feedback
- Determine if this is a potential career pathway for you

The Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) was founded at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) in 2019 as a partnership between ISR, the Institute’s Survey Research Center, and the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. The center pursues cutting-edge research and innovative teaching on one of the central societal challenges of our time: social inequality.

Join us for our inaugural lecture as we talk to Thomas Piketty about his new book, Capital and Ideology. In this book, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, presents a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and outlines a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.

We will have a panel discussion with Elizabeth Anderson, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor, and Fabian Pfeffer, Director of the Center for Inequality Dynamics, with a reception to follow where Mr. Piketty will be signing books.

Please RSVP for this event: https://www.inequalitydynamics.umich.edu/piketty-rsvp/

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B, and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B, and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

The Michigan Population Studies Center presents a panel discussion on Census 2020: Opportunities and Challenges, with Barbara A. Anderson, William Frey, David Johnson.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

BIOS:

Dr. Anderson studies the relationship between social change and demographic change. Her research focuses on the former Soviet Union, China and South Africa. Her teaching centers on the relationship between social and demographic change and on technical demography.

Dr. Frey specializes in migration, population redistribution, and the demography of metropolitan areas. He is currently studying the dynamics of race and status-selective immigration and internal migration dynamics in U.S. metropolitan areas with the 1980-2000 Censuses. He also studies the migration and distribution of the elderly population in the U.S. as well as poverty migration determinants. Frey directs the Social Science Data Analysis Network (www.SSDAN.net) that creates demographic media for educators and policy-makers.

Dr. Johnson's research interests include the measurement of inequality and mobility (using income, consumption and wealth), the effects of tax rebates, equivalence scale estimation, poverty measurement, and price indexes.

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B, and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

This workshop will be held via Zoom (link to follow via email prior to the event). For safety and privacy, you must be registered to receive the link.

In 2017, the American Psychological Association, Climate for Health, and ecoAmerica published, “Mental Health and our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance.” In October 2018, the U.N. released a report warning that without “unprecedented” political actions, we will likely see catastrophic conditions by 2040. Globally, most communities are already experiencing effects of climate change, and the poorest members of society remain most vulnerable. In this uncertain context, climate grief is real, particularly as the crisis is largely beyond any individual’s ability to control. As a scholar studying climate change, Sampson has sought emerging evidence-based strategies in hopes of coping and building resiliency. In this workshop, together we will: 1) confront our sometimes silent, biggest fears related to climate change, 2) identify ways our community or current professional work may be climate-affected, and 3) create a personal climate resiliency plan that may include household or community action or policy advocacy strategies.

This event will take place on Zoom on Thursday, May 21 at 10:00 am Eastern Time. **Please register here to attend: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y3QMjWLNSxi2NXAuu0sNAQ**

Please note: to join the event you will need to download Zoom to your device. http://zoom.us/

Join us for a discussion on the challenges of navigating an economic crisis during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Ford School professors Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, and Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr, will discuss some of the unprecedented economic challenges facing global leaders today. How can national, state, and local policymakers advance economic needs and the health and safety of communities? Globally, what approaches have worked so far, and where can we go from here? What have we learned, and how can we be better prepared in the future?

This event is hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by the Office of University Development.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Detroit has emerged as an epicenter of the crisis. To date, more than 1300 Detroiters have died from a coronavirus infection and 43 percent of city residents have lost their jobs. In this ISR Insights talk, Jeffrey Morenoff (Professor, Sociology and Public Policy; Director, Population Studies Center) and Lydia Wileden (PhD Candidate, Sociology and Public Policy; Population Studies Center trainee) will discuss efforts by the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study -- a panel study of more than 1100 Detroiters -- to capture the real-time experiences of Detroiters and share insights from two survey waves on the dramatic financial precarity facing many Detroit households and the behavioral and economic changes residents are making to get by.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.

Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.

Visit https://bluejeans.com/271348399 to access the virtual First Step session. Keep in mind that they are only offered from 1-1:30pm.